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	<description>Conversation on the future of Britain</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Welsh results examined &#8220;Anyone but Labour&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/05/07/pluralism-enters-welsh-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/05/07/pluralism-enters-welsh-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Elections 08]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A breakdown of the local election results in Wales which were catastrophic for Labour. 
(This is a revised post reporting the corrected results. Thanks to those who pointed this out in the comments on the original post.)

John Osmond (Cardiff, IWA): Labour&#8217;s near century-long domination of Welsh local politics came to an end on May Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devolved nations challenging PFI</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/23/devolved-nations-challenging-pfi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon) Scotland&#8217;s Finance Minister, John Swinney, came in for sustained criticism last week, when he published the responses to the consultation on his proposed Scottish Futures Trust. Several respondents suggested that his plan to replace the Private Finance Initiative left key questions unaddressed:
Audit Scotland, the public sector watchdog, observed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson would not have been Salmond&#8217;s ally</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/05/jefferson-would-not-have-been-salmonds-ally/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/05/jefferson-would-not-have-been-salmonds-ally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nationalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Plaid Cymru]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SNP]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Normal Mouth (Rhondda, blogger): Alex Salmond has been in the USA this week quoting Thomas Jefferson. Fortunately for English sensibilities he did not invoke the great man’s suggestion that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” but chose instead the rather more anodyne “we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Citizen X: Oppressive proposals like this will only highlight division</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/14/good-citizen-x-oppressive-proposals-like-this-will-only-highlight-division/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/14/good-citizen-x-oppressive-proposals-like-this-will-only-highlight-division/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The good citizen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bethan Jenkins (Neath, Plaid AM): The headline of Lord Goldsmith&#8217;s proposals on British citizenship and Constitutional reform is inevitably that of calling on young people to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.  The reason - to foster a sense of ‘shared understanding,&#8217; and a sense of National pride (though in fact it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I can see a rainbow over Wales</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/11/i-can-see-a-rainbow-over-wales/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/11/i-can-see-a-rainbow-over-wales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Labour Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Waters (Cardiff): The Welsh political class is full of talk of who will replace Rhodri Morgan as First Minister when he stands down in September 2009. Supporters of Carwyn Jones confidently predict he&#8217;ll slot nicely into the role.  Detractors talk up the chances of Huw Lewis, Leighton Andrews and Edwina Hart. Though the names [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom of Welsh parking obscured by context of devolution</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/04/wisdom-of-welsh-parking-obscured-by-context-of-devolution/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/04/wisdom-of-welsh-parking-obscured-by-context-of-devolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Devolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Waters (Cardiff): The decision of the Coalition Welsh Assembly Government to scrap car parking charges at some hospitals from April has provoked an intemperate debate. &#8220;New NHS apartheid as free hospital parking to be rolled out in Wales&#8230; but not England&#8221; the Daily Mail cried.
No sense in &#8220;subsidising car parks&#8221; with NHS money, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Morgan deliver on the promise which sunk the rainbow coalition?</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/02/18/will-morgan-deliver-on-the-promise-which-sunk-the-rainbow-coalition/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/02/18/will-morgan-deliver-on-the-promise-which-sunk-the-rainbow-coalition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Devolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labour Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Waters (Cardiff): Just when Gordon Brown concedes  there&#8217;s &#8220;a very strong case&#8221; for a review of Scottish devolution, the man he  appointed to represent Wales around the Cabinet table has been downplaying expectations of  refreshing the Assembly&#8217;s powers.
Paul Murphy told the Welsh Labour  Party conference this weekend that the status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a minister for digital inclusion?</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/01/31/what-is-a-minister-for-digital-inclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/01/31/what-is-a-minister-for-digital-inclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Devolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ID cards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Bright (London, OK): Yesterday, as I was hurrying out the door, I noticed an icWales article about Paul Murphy, and stuck up a brief blog about it. One line caught my eye slightly: he has been made minister for &#8220;Digital inclusion&#8221;, in the Ministry of Justice. What responsibilities will this new minister have? Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The year ahead: below the surface moves the future of Wales</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/01/31/the-year-ahead-below-the-surface-moves-the-future-of-wales/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/01/31/the-year-ahead-below-the-surface-moves-the-future-of-wales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The year ahead]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Normal Mouth (Rhondda, blogger): After a genuinely tumultuous and probably momentous 2007, the augers for 2008 in Wales seem on the surface to be more mundane. It is true that every council seat is up for election, but this holds the prospect only of modest retreat for Labour, given that its base is already so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First thoughts of the new devolution minister?</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/01/30/first-thoughts-of-the-new-devolution-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/01/30/first-thoughts-of-the-new-devolution-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Bright (London, OK): As Lee Waters argues below, Paul Murphy may be set fair to become the new devolution minister. icWales has an interesting look at some of his initial thoughts. To paraphrase quickly: he thinks it would be &#8220;bonkers&#8221; for Wales to ask for less representation in the UK parliament - and looks [...]]]></description>
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